Bible History Daily posts more than a dozen high-res images of “King David’s Tomb.” You need a subscription to read Jeffrey Zorn’s related article, but the images are available to all. And if you ever teach about the subject, you should grab the nicely colored drawings from Weill’s excavations while they’re available (below the photos).

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Deane Galbraith summarizes a new article in which Yigal Levin rejects the identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa as Shaaraim and proposes instead that it is the Israelite encampment.

I notice that he argues that Khirbet Qeiyafa was built after the time of David (who he implies didn't exist), and that the author was simply assigning the encampment as the setting while inventing the story of David and Goliath whole cloth. What's the basis for that claim? And does the identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa with the encampment from the story require that the story be fiction?